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Waterfox 18.0.1 is finally available! Sorry for the delay everyone, but there was an Intel compiler bug, to which I worked closley with Intel to resolve. Anyway, onwards to the release.


What's New in Firefox 17-18.0.1?



  • First revision of the Social API and support for Facebook Messenger
  • Click-to-play blocklisting implemented to prevent vulnerable plugin versions from running without the user's permission (see blog post)
  • Updated Awesome Bar experience with larger icons
  • JavaScript Maps and Sets are now iterable
  • SVG FillPaint and StrokePaint implemented
  • Improvements that make the Web Console, Debugger and Developer Toolbar faster and easier to use
  • New Markup panel in the Page Inspector allows easy editing of the DOM
  • Sandbox attribute for iframes implemented, enabling increased security
  • Over twenty performance improvements, including fixes around the New Tab page
  • Pointer lock doesn't work in web apps (769150)
  • Page scrolling on sites with fixed headers (780345)
  • Problems involving HTTP Proxy Transactions (Associated bugs)
  • Disabled HIDPI support on external monitors to avoid rendering glitches (bug 814434)
  • Faster JavaScript performance via IonMonkey compiler
  • Preliminary support for WebRTC
  • Experience better image quality with our new HTML scaling algorithm
  • Performance improvements around tab switching
  • Support for new DOM property window.devicePixelRatio
  • Improvement in startup time through smart handling of signed extension certificates
  • Support for W3C touch events implemented, taking the place of MozTouch events
  • Disable insecure content loading on HTTPS pages (62178)
  • Improved responsiveness for users on proxies (769764)


What's New in Waterfox 18.0.1?


  • JumpLists have now been fixed! Thanks to MoonChild (Pale Moon Project) for the tip!

How do I update using the automatic updater?


Make sure the "Waterfox Updater" shortcut has the correct parameter attached to it:


"C:\Program Files\Waterfox\updater.exe" /checknow



Note: The update might not be immediately available via the automatic updater. Check in an hour or so.


How do I change the language on my Waterfox Installation?


  • In the address bar, type 'about: config' then press "enter" to access the options of Firefox.
  • In the search bar just below, enter the following string: general.useragent.locale
  • Right-click it and click on "Modify", then enter, for example, "en-US" to set it to English.
  • You can get the .xpi's from here. (Wait until a news post has been made saying the language packs have been updated to 18.0.1)



 

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  2. Quantum Reality
  3. Andre Chappel
  4. Nick2253
  5. Jack Pieron
  6. Dean Surkin
  7. MaimiWeiss
  8. Richard Haire
  9. DE MARCO, LLC
  10. Garrett Anderson
  11. Mark Greenway
  12. Brenda Fernández
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  14. Kevin Blas







Edited by MrAlex - 1/19/13 at 2:43pm
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WOW a 64bit? I still don't know if i should try it. Cuz it's a modified browser. Kinda sketchy but i await results from others til i try, i applaud you for adding 64bit!
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WOW a 64bit? I still don't know if i should try it. Cuz it's a modified browser. Kinda sketchy but i await results from others til i try, i applaud you for adding 64bit!
Thanks. I hardly did much, just recompiled the program
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Wonder if it's also SSE2 optimized - if so I'll give it a go
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Wonder if it's also SSE2 optimized - if so I'll give it a go
In the next build I'll be enabling the following optimisations:
  • MMX
  • SSE2
  • SSE3
There is also the option to add SSE4.1 but lots of users still use AMD processors and old Core 2 Duo CPUs, such as me
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Wow, that is awesome I think I'll be switching to waterfox pending 64-bit plugin support for 1 or 2 things such as Silverlight that I will probably find easily!
What's awesome is firefox 4 is already fast enough but I can imagine this would be a lot faster
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Wow, that is awesome I think I'll be switching to waterfox pending 64-bit plugin support for 1 or 2 things such as Silverlight that I will probably find easily!
What's awesome is firefox 4 is already fast enough but I can imagine this would be a lot faster
Voila. The new build is now available, and it's been done properly this time everything is named correctly too

Also, Silverlight 5 will bring 64-Bit support. Current release date is 1H 2011
Edited by MrAlex - 3/27/11 at 1:33pm
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Awesome! will be downloading and importing my firefox profile soon!
And meh, I don't visit many sites (if at all) that use Silverlight yet anyway

EDIT: I get an MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer error on startup. Trying to fix this error myself now by d/l-ing the DLL and placing it in the program folder...
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Awesome! will be downloading and importing my firefox profile soon!
And meh, I don't visit many sites (if at all) that use Silverlight yet anyway

EDIT: I get an MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer error on startup. Trying to fix this error myself now by d/l-ing the DLL and placing it in the program folder...
Sorry my mistake. Updated the thread with the missing file required.
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Nearly forgot to launch the install - this is certainly much much faster! Even adapted to my Firefox profile upon first startup which is great, so I can revert to regular firefox in case of issues. I'm definitely liking it so far

I'm going to put a link to Waterfox in my "Optimizing Firefox" article (see sig)
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